ATI Catalyst 10.7a Beta Adds AA in StarCraft 2
Anti-aliasing can now be enabled for StarCraft II.
Friday AMD released a new Catalyst 10.7a driver that adds anti-aliasing support for Blizzard's just-released sci-fi RTS, StarCraft II. According to AMD, anti-aliasing must be enabled through the ATI Catalyst Control Center when using Windows 7, Windows Vista, or Windows XP.
Outside the StarCraft II visual enhancement, the new beta drivers also offer improved performance for Eyefinity users using four graphics cards (Quad ATI CrossFireX).
Here's the full scoop:
** Starcraft II: Support for Anti-Aliasing through the ATI Catalyst Control Center when using a Windows 7, Windows Vista or Windows XP based system with an:
ATI Radeon HD 5xxx series graphics card or ATI Radeon Mobility equivalent series of products
ATI Radeon HD 4xxx series graphics card or ATI Radeon Mobility equivalent series of products
ATI Radeon HD 3xxx series graphics card or ATI Radeon Mobility equivalent series of products
ATI Radeon HD 2xxx series graphics card or ATI Radeon Mobility equivalent series of products
** Improved performance for Quad ATI CrossFireX for Eyefinity supported configurations.
To download, click on the appropriate link below:
ATI Catalyst 10.7a beta driver for Windows 7 / Windows Vista
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Actually, isn't implementing AA in a game the developer's responsibility? It's sad if ATI and Nvidia have to do Blizzard's work...
Actually, isn't implementing AA in a game the developer's responsibility? It's sad if ATI and Nvidia have to do Blizzard's work...
Regardless of the developer, you should be able to force AA on in your setting for your card, and this should allways be the case, turning features off to make sure you have falsly high rframe rates and taking away users options by force is plainly, not cool!!!
It's also hard to believe how much of an FPS hit the ATI cards take having AA on anyway as it's such a basic and needed feature for clarity, i run games at 32x AA fine so it's disastrous and very sneaky figure fiddling from ATI as per normal... anything to keep the figures high for the fanbois i guess.
Regardless of the developer, you should be able to force AA on in your setting for your card, and this should allways be the case, turning features off to make sure you have falsly high rframe rates and taking away users options by force is plainly, not cool!!! It's also hard to believe how much of an FPS hit the ATI cards take having AA on anyway as it's such a basic and needed feature for clarity, i run games at 32x AA fine so it's disastrous and very sneaky figure fiddling from ATI as per normal... anything to keep the figures high for the fanbois i guess.
First of all, 32X AA simply is ridiculous. Of course you're going to take a performance hit there... In most games (haven't tried SC II yet so can't comment on the situation there), anything over 8x AA isn't noticeable in most cases...
Firstly when is toms gonna do something about these spammers, they are wrecking these boards and secondly i totally agree with silmarunya, anything above 8-16 AA is not noticeable and 32 is just silly.